Qua·si·mo·do
| \ ˌkwä-si-ˈmō-(ˌ)dō
, ˌkwä-zi- \
, ˌkwä-zi- \
Definition of Quasimodo
: the Sunday following Easter
This formal extension or anticlimax of Easter Week is known as … Low Sunday to English-speaking Christians, except for Catholics everywhere, who call it Quasimodo after the first words of its Latin Mass …— Christian Roy The name Quasimodo Sunday comes from the Introit of the mass which is said on this day.— Rev. Jon Bergen Álvarez Maldonado left Cuzco on Quasimodo or Low Sunday, two weeks after the campaign was announced …— John Hemming
— called also Low Sunday
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Qua·si·mo·do
| \ kwä-ˈzē-mə-ˌdō
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Salvatore
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1901–1968 Italian poet and critic
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1901–1968 Italian poet and critic
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